State of the Union Live Post

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Live post. You can watch streaming video via CSPAN.

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[telemann.livejournal.com]

Hey, Trade Promotion Authority finally gets the GOP out of their seats!

— Mike O'Brien (@mpoindc) January 21, 2015 (https://twitter.com/mpoindc/status/557728775803527168)

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Wait until he uses it in Cuba.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Absolutely zero GOP applause for the community college/student loan section. #SOTU2015 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU2015?src=hash)

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 21, 2015 (https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/557727701373812736)

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, an uneducated populace is their best hope.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

My fellow Americans: the situation in Syria is totally fucked. We've got nothing. We've got less than nothing. Let's stop pretending and pull all of our shit home.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Send in Clint!

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Good wholesome fun here RT @voxdotcom (https://twitter.com/voxdotcom): B-I-N-G-O! Play our #SOTU (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash) game http://t.co/qYsac0jZjf (http://t.co/qYsac0jZjf) pic.twitter.com/OPHCxk92y1 (http://t.co/OPHCxk92y1)

— Laura McGann (@lkmcgann) January 20, 2015 (https://twitter.com/lkmcgann/status/557684545857024002)

[moonshaz.livejournal.com]

"John Boehner rolls his eyes" should be a freebie, lol! '

LMAO at that one and "Ruth Bader Ginsburg falls asleep"!

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Oooh, "I have no more campaigns to run. [Republican applause.] I know, because I won both of them!" He's really feeling good and feisty.

[stout-john.livejournal.com]

Love that quote, best ad-lib ever!

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Haha, he's fast on his feet. The reaction was soooo good too.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I read the transcript but had to find the video for that. His face when he says it is also so properly emotive.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

2012 White House Correspondents Dinner:

Now, if I do win a second term as President, let me just say something to all the -- (applause) -- let me just say something to all my conspiracy-oriented friends on the right who think I'm planning to unleash some secret agenda: You're absolutely right. (Laughter.) So allow me to close with a quick preview of the secret agenda you can expect in a second Obama administration....

In my first term, we ended the war in Iraq; in my second term, I will win the war on Christmas. (Laughter.) In my first term, we repealed the policy known as "don't ask, don't tell" -- (applause) -- wait, though; in my second term, we will replace it with a policy known as, it's raining men. (Laughter.) In my first term, we passed health care reform; in my second term, I guess I'll pass it again. (Applause.)


We can always hold out hope.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

ZING!!!

Zing! Obama gets back at Rs who applauded his "I have no more campaigns to run" line with "I know, because I won both of them"

— Tal Kopan (@TalKopan) January 21, 2015 (https://twitter.com/TalKopan/status/557736268092956672)

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

Did he copy and paste Chernenko's speech?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Zzz. Your trolling is as bad as your English.

[moonshaz.livejournal.com]

[icelore.livejournal.com]

You're really not good at this.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Yay! Free college!

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Meh, people like you and I will end up paying for it.

Unless it's done as as an executive order, it's nothing but a political ploy.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Senator Joni Ernst (Iowa - Republican) is giving the Republican response.

And now the GOP response from a Senator who wanted to ban Spanish ballots and thinks the UN is conspiring to ban golf.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 21, 2015 (https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/557737411212759042)

[moonshaz.livejournal.com]

OMB, where has lolgop been all my life? I NEED this. *clicks "follow"*

[blackdwarv.livejournal.com]

[interdictor.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't have a family if you're only worth $15000/yr in the marketplace.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Obama's warm embrace of Justice Ginsburg.

"She is one of my favorite people," Obama told The New Yorker in 2014, after the 81-year-old associate justice was rushed to the hospital with a blocked artery. Following her hospitalization, Ginsburg brushed aside suggestions that she step down from the bench while Obama is still in office. The president told the magazine at the time: "Life tenure means she gets to decide, not anybody else, when she chooses to go."

It's clear that the warm feelings are mutual between Ginsburg and Obama, who had a special bond even before he was elected president. “When the Court had one of its occasional dinners for members of the Senate, Ginsburg asked that Obama be seated at her table," wrote Supreme Court expert Jeffrey Toobin.

Ginsburg has served on the Supreme Court since 1993, when she was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton. Since then, she has become famous for her advocacy for women's rights, perhaps most notably her blistering dissent in the Hobby Lobby case, and her strong opposition to the court's Citizens United decision, which she said she wished she could overrule.

For those who haven't check it out, she has her own Tumblr. And she's quite proud of it ;)

Notorious R.B.G (http://notoriousrbg.tumblr.com/)

[mudryikot.livejournal.com]

Is it proper for a President and a Supreme Court Justice to be on such close terms?

[mudryikot.livejournal.com]

Read the transcript. Really expected it to be in a more formal language.

Also:
"We’re upholding the principle that bigger nations can’t bully the small " - now that will be news for Cuba, Syria and a myriad of other countries bullied by US.

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

Current SOTU speeches seem to be written in a much more casual style. I'm guessing because it has changed over time from a report given to Congress to something that many Americans tune in to. It's become more of a "campaign speech" for the next year's policy goals.

[telemann.livejournal.com]